Norberto, a 23-year old white male in his third relapse of a B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) has been treated with an infusion of autologous CD19 Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T cells (CAR-T cells). Ten days later, he felt severe discomfort in the middle of the night…
15th November
In addition to talks by Prof Abbas, Day 3 of Immuno-Jaipur included talks on autoimmunity and chronic inflammation. Prof. Bernhard Fleisher gave a talk on autoimmunity in the central nervous system where he discussed various autoimmune diseases such as Myasthenia Gravis, Encephalitis, Multiple sclerosis. Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune disease…
A five-month-old male infant was brought into the emergency department by parents with hypotonicity (reduced muscular tone) and drowsiness that began the evening before. The infant presented with refractory atopic dermatitis and recent weight loss.
Peter, a 60 year-old Caucasian policeman, complains of a painful burning sensation in his lower extremities lasting for several months. Lower limbs petechiae (small purple/red hemorrhagic spots) appeared one week ago.
A 7 year old girl presented to her local hospital for the second time in 3 months with arthralgia, a migratory skin rash and fever for 5 days. She was admitted and within 2 days…
A 31 year old caucasian male presented to the HIV clinic complaining of recent onset of fever, vomiting, joint pain, muscle aches, sore throat and a fine red rash on his face and arms. All symptoms had worsened since they first started 2 days ago and seemed to be aggravated shortly…